Poverty and Homelessness in America – Three Articles
American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines; The Death Penalty for Homelessness; Baskets and Tents.
People First: Cuba’s State Plan to Confront Climate Change
In 2017, the Cuban government approved the ‘State Plan to Confront Climate Change’, known in Cuba as ‘Tarea Vida’ (Life Task). With a projection up to the year 2100, ‘Tarea Vida’ is the world’s only truly long-term state plan to address climate change.
As Negotiation on Global Plastics Treaty Gets Underway, India Should Reconsider Contradictory Stance
The Indian government has kept its eye on billions in revenue from the polluting petrochemical industry while making half-hearted measures to curb plastic use.
Mining Children: Why Dataveillance in the Name of Education or Health Must Stop
The unequal power dynamics of various technologies and agencies intruding on children’s bodies exacerbate the dangers of data colonialism and the lack of data privacy.
Decriminalising Abortion in Asia: Perspectives from India and Nepal
The ability to make and exercise decisions about one’s body, sexuality and reproduction is at the core of gender, economic and social justice. Human rights bodies worldwide recognise that access to safe abortion is essential healthcare and a critical aspect of fundamental human rights.
U.S. Post-9/11 Wars Caused 4.5 Million Deaths, Displaced 38-60 Million People, Study Shows
The wars the United States waged and fueled in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths, and displaced at least 38 million people—according to a report by Brown University.
What the Debate on the Ban on ‘Kerala Story’ Needs to Acknowledge
In the pursuit of free speech absolutism, one can’t let hate narrative strengthen.
The Telecom Industry in India: Free Market or Monopoly-Finance Capital?
This article investigates three decades of the telecom miracle and asks a larger question: What do we learn regarding the nature of big capital from the extraordinary success of the telecom industry in India?
The Passing of Bhaskar Save: What the ‘Green Revolution’ did for India
Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the ‘Gandhi of natural farming’. In 2006 he published an open letter on the disastrous effects of green revolution for India – socially, economically and ecologically. We reproduce this letter here.
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Grand Theft Capital: The Increasing Exploitation and Robbery of the U.S. Working Class
While outright expropriation, or robbery, is always present in capitalism, as an external basis of its existence, the inner dynamic of the system arises from the exploitation of labor power, a more hidden form of robbery.